Pen or pencil holder.



A. T. SNELL.

PEN 0R PENCIL HOLDER. APPLIOATION FILED D110. 11, 1911.

1,053,663. Patented Feb. 18, 1 913.

3 n ueuto'c specification.

and arrangement of parts which will be more fully hereinafter describedand claimed.

a rear elevation of the holder or clasp showa modified form of thedevice adapted for ARTHUR T. SNELL, OF PASADENA, CALIFORNIA.

PEN OR PENCIL HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed December 11, 1911, Serial No. 665,166.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Ann-inn T. SNELL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Pasadena, in the county of Los Angeles and State ofCalifornia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pen orPencil Holders, of which the following is a This invention relates to aholder or clasp specially devised for removable application to clothingand particularly to pockets for retaining. pencils, fountain-pens andthe like in fixed position, and in modified form ada ted also to supporta-candle.

T lie primary object of the invention is to provide a holder or claspformed of resilient wire having essentially an expanding frame with adouble spring action to positively grip and hold lead pencils andfountain-pens of various sizes, either small or large in diameter, aswell as other devices, and further to firmly rip the entire portion ofapoeket. engaged thereby that may vary in thickness in part, withoutinterfering with or modifying its gripping action on a pencilor pendisposed therein, especially when inserting a pencil or pen thereinto orwithdrawing the latter therefrom.

The invention consists in the construction In said drawings-Figure 1 isa perspective view of a portion of a vest showing the improved holder orclasp for pencils and fountain-pens applied to the pocket thereof. Fig.2 is a detail perspective viewof the holder or clasp shown by Fig. 1.Fig. 3 1s a transverse section through the pocket shown by Fig. 1illustrating the holder or clasp applied thereto. Fig. 4 is a slde elevation of the holder or clasp showing a position of a fountain-pentherein. Fig. 5 is ing a portion. of a pencil or pen therein in dottedlines. Fig. 6 1s a perspective view of other uses.

The improved holder or clasp in all its forms is constructed from asingle piece of resilient wire stock of suitable gage by bendingt-hesame by any suitable means into the forms which will be presentlyexplained.

In the form of holder or clasp shown by stituting a clam Figs. 1 to 5inclusive, the free extremities 5 are drawn together and secured inparallel relation and formed with upper laterally expanded and inwardlydirected bends 6; these bends, as seen best in Fig. 3, are backward orinward toward the legs 8 soon to be described. From these bends the wiremembers continue and are formed with rearwardly and outwardly disposedbends 7 from which legs 8 convergingly descend to a point adjacent thelower terminals of the extremities 5, the latter and said legs conforengagement with a portion of a pee tet or any other garment edge. Theextremities 5 and legs 8 are so disposed that one of said legs 8 and oneof the extremities 5 are in :a plane divergent from the plane in whichthe other members 5 and 8 are disposed, as seen best in Fig. 2, and overthe extremities 5, any form of badge, emblem, ornament oradvertising-device 9 may be attached. From the lower terminals of thelegs 8 the wire members are bent outwardly in the form of reversearcuate connecting bends 10 which are arranged in the same plane andextended rearwardly to the lower converged terminals of the upwardlyprojecting arms '11 continuous with each other at their upper terminalsthrough themedium of a rearwarclly bent loop 12 which stands above theplane of the bends 7. The arms 11 are uniformly inclined forwardly andindividually diverged toward the loop 12 to form wit the legs 8 a pencilor pen-holder clasp havceive and effectively hold or tightly clasppencils, fountain-pens or other analogous devices of varying diameters.By the formation just explained the pencil or pen clasping portion ofthe device is converged at its upper open or mouth extremity, and thesaid extremity is located above and directly over the lower yieldingpassage 13 formed by and between the bends 10. A front or pocket clampis formed between the extremities 5 and thele s 8, and the rear orpencil or pen clamp is fin-med by the legs 8, arms 11 and loops 10 and12.

The legs 8 and arms 11 and their connecting loops 10 and 12 are disposedinside the pocket when the device is applied. and the said legs 8 beingconnected'solely totheupper terminals of the extremities 5 by the bends7 and 6, and to the lower terminals of the Patented Feb. 18,1913.

ing such dimensions as to be adapted to reint where the material isusually thicker. By

inclining the legs 8 and arms 11 as shown 15 and disposing the loop 12above the plane 'of the bends 7 and correspondingly projecting'said arms11 upwardly, a pen or pencil may be inserted in the device while heldvertically and while pressing the. lower end an of the pencil or penbz-ickwardly against the loop '12, and by this operation the arms 11 arecaused to open backwardly away from the legs 8 at the topof the deviceand as the pencil or pen is pushed downwardly the loops 10 are forcedoutwardly in opposite lateral directions and-this movementis im partedto the lowerextremities of the said legs and arms witha. doubleexpanding easy spring action which results in a positive retention orclamping action relatively to the pencil or pen. The. pencil or pen mayhowever be readily withdrawn from the device. when-desired, and duringsuch withdrawing operation the pocket clamp comprising the extremities 5and legs ti is not modified in its applied relation to the pocket. vFig. 6 'shows'the device arranged to serve as a holder for tree ornamentor as a candle holder, for. which latter use one of the wire 40extremities is continued upwardly and laterally bent, as at- 23, andthen merges into spring coil bends 24- at the upper tcriniinils of legs25, which downwardly incline toward the extremities 20 and spike 21 andhave lower laterally deflected loops 2 at angles thereto. From the loops26 arms 27 extend upwardly and are COIUIQIJlGfl by an outwardlydeflected loop to present a clamping hanger for the reception ofdifferent ornamental devices. or for other purposes.

The device simple in its structure and advantageously serviceable inperforming its several functions.

menses lVhat is claimed is 2- 1. A clamp composed of a single piece of5: resilient wire comprising extremities secured together at their ends,legs continuing from said extremities in converging relation to eachother, and arms hating loops in a horizontal plane connected to the legsand inclining in an. upward direction toward the legs and connected attheir upper extremi ties by an angularly deflected cross loop, saidextremities forming with said legs a front clamp, said extremities beingprovided be. yond their point of connection with the legs with inwardlydeflected bends.

2. A clasp formed of a single piece of resilient wire comprising a frontclamp and a rear clamp the rea clamp having its rear members incliningin an upward direction toward said front clamp said mei'nbers beinglaterally converged toward and connected to the lower portion of thefront clamp by horizontal loops. g

3. A clasp formed of a single piece of resilient wire comprising a frontclamp with a bottom inlet and connarising outer and inner members and arear clamp including rear members extending above the front clamp andterminating in a rearwardly deflected loop joining the rear members ofsaid rear clamp, said rear clamp having a top inlet and a lowereXp-ansiblc opening, the front clamp having its outer members providedwith bends directed toward its inner memhers.

4. As a new article of manufacture, a clasp formedof a single, piece ofresilient wire comprising a front clamp the front and 99, rear mei'ubersof each. side of which are in a plane divergent fron'i the plane of themembers of the ether side. and arms joined to the lower ends of theinner members of the front clamp by horizontal loops, and a rearwardlydeleetcd loop oining the upper ends of said arms, said arms with therear members ofthe front clamp forming a rear clamp.

ln tcstinionv whereof l. hereunto atlix my 10( signature in presence oftwo witnesses.

. ARTHUR T. SNELL.

Witnesses N. CURTIS LAa-raioxn, A. .G. Pon'rs.

